Everything about Christianity is contained in the pathetic image of ‘the flock.
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENSThe Koran shows every sign of being thrown together by human beings, as do all the other holy books.
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Islamophobia: a word created by fascists, and used by cowards, to manipulate morons.
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She’s got no charisma of any kind [but] I can imagine her being mildly useful to a low-rank porn director.
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Philosophy begins where religion ends, just as by analogy chemistry begins where alchemy runs out, and astronomy takes the place of astrology.
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Why do humans exist? A major part of the answer: because Pikaia Gracilens survived the Burgess decimation.
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The Koran shows every sign of being thrown together by human beings, as do all the other holy books.
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Jesus makes large claims for his heavenly father but never mentions that his mother is or was a virgin, and is repeatedly very rude and coarse to her when she makes an appearance.
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The discovery there is no god is a great relief, because if there were, it would be like living in a celestial North Korea if there was one. You would never be able to escape.
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I say that homosexuality is not just a form of sex, it’s a form of love, and it deserves our respect for that reason.
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I leave it to the faithful to burn each other’s churches and mosques and synagogues, which they can be always relied upon to do.
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Of course we have free will because we have no choice but to have it.
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The faithful believe that certain truths have been ‘revealed.’ The skeptics and secularists believe that truth is only to be sought by free inquiry and trial and error. Only one of those positions is dogmatic.
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We have lived in a world where the discoveries of physics and genetics are far more awe-inspiring, as well as infinitely more liberating, than the claims of any religion.
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The only real radicalism in our time will come as it always has—from people who insist on thinking for themselves and who reject party-mindedness.
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The one thing that the racist can never manage is anything like discrimination: he is indiscriminate by definition.
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I learned that to be amusing was not to be frivolous and that language – always the language – was the magic key as much to prose as to poetry.
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